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X-Men Unlimited
''X-Men Unlimited'' is the name of several comic book titles published by Marvel Comics. An anthology title, it features stories that focus less on the main continuity and more on peripheral events occurring with the X-Men characters. The first two series ran from 1993 to 2003 and the Infinity Comics launched in 2021. Volume 1 This title allowed new and lesser-known writers and artists to write and draw X-Men comics. The comics were also usually self-contained stories; with the exception of a tie-in to the Onslaught crossover. This was particularly unique during the late 1990s when most X-Men titles frequently had story arcs that were several issues long. It ran as a quarterly feature releasing four issues per year until late 2002 when it converted into a monthly title. Volume 2 The second series ran from early 2004 to early 2006. The series' final issue was in June 2006. Each issue contained two short self-contained stories; in almost every case each story would focus speci ...
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Superhero Comics
Superhero comics is one of the most common genres of American comic books. The genre rose to prominence in the 1930s and became extremely popular in the 1940s and has remained the dominant form of comic book in North America since the 1960s. Superhero comics feature stories about superheroes and the universes these characters inhabit. Beginning with the introduction of Superman in 1938 in Action Comics 1, ''Action Comics'' #1 (an anthology of adventure features) comic books devoted to superheroes (heroic people with extraordinary or superhuman abilities and skills, or god-like powers and attributes) ballooned into a widespread genre, coincident with the beginnings of World War II and the end of the Great Depression. Precursors In comics format, superpowered and costumed heroes like Popeye and The Phantom had appeared in newspaper comic strips for several years prior to Superman. The first fully-masked hero Clock (comics), The Clock first appeared in the comic book ''Funny Pages' ...
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Chris Bachalo
Chris Bachalo (; born August 23, 1965) is a Canadian comic book illustrator known for his quirky, cartoon-like style. He became well known for stints on DC Comics' ''Shade, the Changing Man'' and Neil Gaiman's two Death (Sandman), Death series. Chris has also illustrated several of Marvel Comics' X-Men-related series, including ''Generation X (comics), Generation X'' (which he co-created), ''X-Men: Legacy, X-Men'', ''Uncanny X-Men,'' and ''Ultimate X-Men''. Beginning in April 2000 Chris illustrated his creator ownership, creator-owned series ''Steampunk (comics), Steampunk.'' Biography Early life Bachalo was born in Canada but was raised in Southern California. He has told interviewers that, as a child, he wanted to be a carpenter until he discovered he was allergic to dust. He attended the California State University, Long Beach, California State University at Long Beach, California, Long Beach, where he majored in graphic art and illustrated a few underground comics. DC After ...
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Dan Green (artist)
Dan Green (November 26, 1951 – August 17, 2023) was an American comic book illustrator, who worked primarily as an inker from the early 1970s. He often provided the finished art after receiving breakdowns by artists such as John Romita Sr., John Romita Jr., John Byrne (comics), John Byrne, John Buscema, Sal Buscema, Marc Silvestri, George Pérez, Keith Giffen, Gene Colan, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Carmine Infantino, Al Williamson, Bernie Wrightson, and Keith Pollard. Life and career Dan Green was born in Detroit, Michigan, on November 26, 1951.''Comics Buyer's Guide'' #1636 (December 2007); Page 135 He had a lengthy career as an inker, working from the mid-1970s to the present day, including long runs on ''Spider-Man'', ''Doctor Strange'', ''Uncanny X-Men'', ''Wolverine (comic book), Wolverine,'' and ''Hulk'' for Marvel Comics, and DC's ''Justice League of America''. He also co-wrote and provided watercolor illustrations for the graphic novel ''Doctor Strange: Into Shamballa'' ...
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Mark Farmer (comics)
Mark Farmer (born 1957 in Birmingham) is a British comic book artist. He is best known as an inker, often working with Alan Davis. Career Farmer got his start in the UK comics industry before becoming part of the British Invasion, the wave of UK creators that were an integral part of the DC Comics "new look" of the 1980s He is primarily known these days as an inker, although he has done some pencilling as well (for instance, collaborating with writer Len Wein on an early 1980s run on ''Green Lantern''). Like nearly all those involved in the British Invasion, Farmer got his start at the British weekly comic '' 2000 AD'', where he pencilled such series as Judge Dredd and Anderson: Psi Division. Farmer usually forms a team with writer/penciler Alan Davis. The pair, who first teamed on 1987's D.R. and Quinch for ''2000 AD'', have worked together on such titles as Marvel Comics' ''Excalibur'', '' Avengers'', ''Fantastic Four'' and ''Uncanny X-Men''. For DC their work includes ''Su ...
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Scott Williams (comics)
Scott Williams (born 1960) is an American comic book artist, best known for his work as an inker, and for his decades-long partnership with artist Jim Lee, both of whom began Homage Studios, collaborating on books including ''The Uncanny X-Men'', ''WildCATs'', ''Batman'', ''Superman'', '' WildC.A.T.s/X-Men'', '' All-Star Batman and Robin'', and ''Justice League''. Williams has also inked the pencils of Whilce Portacio and Marc Silvestri, and books including '' Gen13''. Career Regarding his influences, Williams stated in a 2020 interview with SyFy, "I was a big Frank Miller and Klaus Janson fan on '' Daredevil'' and their whole run. As I was starting to get professional work and still figuring things out, I literally had Klaus Jansen comics laid out next to my drawing table so I could try to see what I could steal. And that's actually what most artists do. They steal stuff and it's a time-honored tradition. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it. If you're a penciler or an anch ...
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David Messina
David Messina (born 1974) is an Italian comics artist. Early life David Messina was born in 1974 in Rome Italy. He graduated from the Scuola Internazionale di Comics (International School of Comics) in Rome."Master in Colorazione Digitale, Corso di Fumetto"
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David Messina did and character design in the animation industry and also worked in before breaking into comics.
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Leinil Francis Yu
Leinil Francis Yu (born 1977) is a People of the Philippines, Filipino comic book artist, who began working for the United States, American market through Wildstorm Productions. Career Leinil Francis Yu was first recognized after winning the ''Wizard: The Comics Magazine, Wizard''s Drawing Board Contest, his first published work. He was first hired by Whilce Portacio to do some work for Wildstorm and started his comic book artist's career on ''Aster: The Last Celestial Knight'' #3 (with Ronaldo Roxas) in the mid-1990s, but that work fell through. Portacio then passed on samples of Yu's work to Marvel Comics, who subsequently hired him to work on ''Wolverine (comic book), Wolverine''. After his run on ''Wolverine'' he moved on to work on Marvel's core ''X-Men: Legacy, X-Men'' title in 2000, which was being written by Chris Claremont at the time. Yu continued to work on other Marvel titles such as ''Fantastic Four'', ''Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk'' and ''The New Avengers (comics ...
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Roger Cruz
Roger Cruz (born Rogério da Cruz Kuroda on February 22, 1971, in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian comic book artist. Biography Cruz started his professional career as a letterer for Editora Abril, the Brazilian publishing house, for whom he lettered many Portuguese translations of American comics; then worked as a writer and art assistant for ''Mil Perigos'', a short-lived black and white comics magazine. When Art & Comics Studio first introduced Brazilian artists to the American comic book market, he was given the opportunity to work as an artist for Marvel Comics on the titles ''Ghost Rider'', ''Hulk'', ''Uncanny X-Men'', '' X-Men Alpha'', '' X-Patrol'', ''Generation X'', '' X-Calibre'', ''X-Factor'', ''X-Man'', '' Avengers: Timeslide'' and ''Silver Surfer''. He also worked for DC Comics, where he provided art for one issue of the comic book '' Batman Chronicles''. At the end of the 1990s, Cruz took a break from working on comic books and returned to Brazil, where he beca ...
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David Finch (comics)
David Finch is a comics artist known for his work on Top Cow Productions' ''Cyberforce (Image Comics), Cyberforce'', as well as numerous subsequent titles for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, such as ''The New Avengers (comics), The New Avengers'', ''Moon Knight'', ''Ultimatum (Ultimate Marvel), Ultimatum'', and ''Brightest Day''. He has provided album cover art for the band Disturbed (band), Disturbed, and done concept art for films such as ''Watchmen (2009 film), Watchmen''. Career David Finch started his comics career drawing Top Cow Productions' ''Cyberforce (Image Comics), Cyberforce'', after series creator and studio founder Marc Silvestri ceased his run as writer/artist on that book. Finch co-created ''Ascension (comics), Ascension'' with Matt "Batt" Banning. He later worked on the first three issues of ''Aphrodite IX'' with David Wohl. In 2003, Finch returned to comics for a year-long arc on ''Ultimate X-Men'' with writer Brian Michael Bendis. Following that, the duo moved on ...
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Mike Deodato Jr
Deodato Taumaturgo Borges Filho, better known by his pen name Mike Deodato ( ; born May 23, 1963), is a Brazilian comic book artist. Early life Mike Deodato was born on May 23, 1963, in Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil. He is the son of comic artist Deodato Borges. Career One of Deodato's first works was a 1993 photo-realistic comic book adaptation of the television series ''Beauty and the Beast'' published by Innovation Publishing. Deodato became famous in the North American comic book industry for his work with writer William Messner-Loebs on ''Wonder Woman'', during which he co-created the character Artemis of Bana-Mighdall. After his Wonder Woman project, he became the penciller of ''Thor'', where he worked firstly with writer Warren Ellis and then again with writer William Messner-Loebs. Later he drew '' Glory'' for Rob Liefeld's Extreme Studios at Image Comics and Maximum Press. While his style in the mid-1990s was highly reminiscent of Jim Lee, he has recently changed to ...
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Bryan Hitch
Bryan Hitch (born 22 April 1970) is a British comics artist and comic book writer, writer. Hitch began his career in the United Kingdom for Marvel UK, working on titles such as ''Action Force'' and ''Death's Head'', before gaining prominence on American titles such as Wildstorm's ''Stormwatch (comics), Stormwatch'' and ''The Authority (comics), The Authority'', DC Comics' ''JLA (comic book), JLA'', and Marvel Comics' ''The Ultimates''. Hitch's artwork and designs have appeared in direct-to-video animated films, television, and major feature films, such as the 2009 film ''Star Trek (2009 film), Star Trek'', for which he has been praised by director J. J. Abrams. Early life Bryan Hitch was born 22 April 1970 in what he described as "in the far Northern England, northern reaches of England." He began reading comics at an early age, likening them to his "underage drug habit" and the newsagent in northern England where he would buy his books from his "dealer". The newsagent was nex ...
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Tom Grummett
Thomas Grummett (born 1959) is a Canadian comic book artist and penciller. He is best known for his work as penciller on titles such as '' The New Titans'', '' The Adventures of Superman'', ''Superboy'', '' Power Company'', '' Robin'', '' New Thunderbolts'', and '' Heroes''. Career DC Comics Tom Grummett began providing finished artwork over George Pérez's layouts on ''The New Titans'' #58 (Sept. 1989). He worked with Pérez and Marv Wolfman on the "A Lonely Place of Dying" storyline, which introduced Tim Drake as Robin. Grummett remained on ''The New Titans'' after Pérez's departure and helped Wolfman revitalize the title. He began a long association with the Superman franchise when he drew ''Action Comics'' #665 (May 1991) and then helped writer Louise Simonson and artist Jon Bogdanove launch a new title, '' Superman: The Man of Steel'' in July 1991. Grummett drew part of ''The Adventures of Superman'' #480 (July 1991) and became the main artist on that series with the ...
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